hard drive problem

[stratford]

every time windows boots up it checks my second hard drive for bad clusters is there any way of stopping windows doing this as it is very anoying everytime i boot up
maybe their is a problem with the drive but i only store mp3 files on it but windows checks them all for bad clusters can i stop this .
thanks in advance

 

[stratford]

windows only seems to check the drive when i have tranfered files from master drive to slave is there any reason for this if i download files to the second drive windows does not check the disk.

 

[pentium III @ 1000 mhz]

do you let it complete the check? ..if not let it complete and c what happens

 

[stratford]

if i let it run it would take hours as it seem to replace every file but i dont understand why and now it wants to check both drives every time it boots up

 

[stratford]

if i let it run it would take hours as it seem to replace every file but i dont understand why and now it wants to check both drives every time it boots up

finaly let the file checker complete but when i reboot it checks the drive again

 

[pentium III @ 1000 mhz]

move all ur files to the first hd, in a temp folder. i hope you have apt space...take the second hard drive and reformat it...give it a shot i hope it works

 

[Praetor]

1. Check that SMART doesnt say something like "BAD"
2. What OS are us using?

 

[stratford]

win xp but i think the hd has bad sectors.
checked drive with disk checker it wanted 16hrs to recover bad sectors that was just 2% of the dik checked.
so i think its time for a new drive.